{"id":143815434,"date":"2009-07-23T12:43:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=143815434"},"modified":"2009-07-23T12:43:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:43:54","slug":"paving-an-environmentally-friendly-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=143815434","title":{"rendered":"Paving an Environmentally Friendly Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[From Delegate Al Carr&#8217;s Facebook news feed:]<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn a few weeks, workers will start ripping up Edmonston&#8217;s main road and replacing it with an environmentally friendly street of rain gardens, porous brick and a drought-resistant tree canopy designed to shade the concrete, filter rainwater before it flows into the river and put people to work.<br \/>\nWhen the work is done, Decatur Street will naturally treat more than 90 percent of the pollution from the 40 inches of rainwater that sweeps into the Anacostia each year. &quot;We&#8217;re a town that&#8217;s been beaten up by floods,&quot; said Adam C. Ortiz, Edmonston&#8217;s mayor and the firepower behind the project. &quot;We have to make things happen for us instead of making things happen to us.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/22\/AR2009072203470.html?referrer=facebook\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/22\/AR2009072203470.html?referrer=facebook<\/a>oldId.20090723124354820<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[From Delegate Al Carr&#8217;s Facebook news feed:] &#8230; In a few weeks, workers will start ripping up Edmonston&#8217;s main road and replacing it with an environmentally friendly street of rain gardens, porous brick and a drought-resistant tree canopy designed to shade the concrete, filter rainwater before it flows into the river and put people to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=143815434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paving an Environmentally Friendly Path&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143815434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143815434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143815434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143815434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143815434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143815434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143815434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}